St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-26
THE WAY TO DO IT.

The claims of the divisiOnists before
and Immediately after the election are
far from being sustained by the full re-
turns. Their majOrities have been
growing smaller and beautifully less as
the figures come to light. Gen. CAMP
BELLS 10000 in the South is badly
shriveled, and quite a Sprinkling of
counties down there are finally put in
the union columns, and TIE counties
are very few that give anything like a
majority that way that can he con-
strued as a decided expression of Opin-
ion-While the North rolls up nearly
equal ma, critics on the other side. In
the aggregate the excess of division
votes over the opposition is but a few
paltry thousands. The result is a sur
prise to both sides. For a party that
had all the election machinery in their
hands the GiviSionists have made a mai
VelOusly poor outcome. Those who
have had the curiosity to formulate the
returns report that there were Il
little over 10000 votes cast on
the division question. In the cleo
ton for delegate, last year, there
were 104.S12 votes cast, and a full vote
now would be not less than 125.O0O.
About One-fOurth of the voters of the
territory have voted for division. Even
Judge WARNOCK. who was one of the
SturdieSt champions of division in the
north, has the candOr and good sense
now to say that as 1.-The people have
practically given their decision on the
negative side of the proposition, he will
join in any movement that will the
quickest secure the main Obiect-admiS-
sion into the Union" He adds. further,
in view of the Aberdeen convention:
We believe that an effort should be
made by the representative people of
Dakota, irrespective of party, to secure
admission into the Union as one state.
that being the only reasonable hope of
statehood now left us. 1t is worse than
folly to stand out for division. not only
against an adverse congress, but against
the adverse sentiment of our own peO-
pie. The people of Dakota have been
advertised as a lot OF political wranglerS
long enough"
Most of those who favored division as
in their Judgment the most hopeful eX-
pedient for securing statehood, rather
than as an indispensable condition. are
taking the same ground as the veteran
jamestown editor. But the implacable
divisiOnists-thOsew whose Doodle or local
interests are contingent upon BIZ
section-are furious with wrath at the
action of the unioniStS in now coming to
the front. The Aberdeen convention is
like a red flag before the enraged male
bovine. They fume and talk of its be-
ing an insult to the people who have
given a trit1ing majority of the votes
cast for division. They Stigmatize the
Aberdeen convention as a scheme of
the Democrats and mugwumpS, and
supported by the rustling metropolis of
the center for advertising purposes.
They insist that the people of the south
must ignore ii and refuse TO send dele
gates-a leading paper of that persua-
sion insisting that. in the strong division
counties, those opposed to one
state shall pack the local meetings and
denOunce the movement, refusing to
send delegates. This class of pOliti-
clans are so unhappy over their lean,
lank and disc0uraging outcome at the
polls that the mantle of charity should
be kept convenient for any discretita-
bic exhibition on their part. They are
likely 10 find themselves in much the
predicament of the bull that butted the
locomotive. 1t matters little who orig
'qated or may sign tie call for the one
tate convention. there is an element of
spOntaneity about it. The people are,
1S in,
its favor, and numerous calls are already